Skeletal Summoner
Blood Mage Build
Created for Early Access
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December 6, 2024
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In Path of Exile 2 you can command a whole array of various Skeletons to do your bidding. They each have the same goal - to kill your Enemies, but their methods vary. The Skeletal Reaver are the most basic Melee fighters that can Enrage to improve their Damage, at the cost of losing an increasing amount of Life with each second. To help them stay alive you can summon a few Skeletal Clerics that restore the health of all your Minions and revive them faster.
Alternatively, you can make use of Skeletal Brutes that also fight in Mele Range, and their heavy Hits are more likely to Stun Enemies. If you find Freeze more useful than Stun, you can replace them with the ranged Skeletal Frost Mage instead. In case you prefer offensive Ailments instead of defensive, you can summon a few Skeletal Storm Mages to inflict Shock.
While your Minions do all the work, you can focus on raising your army. The Unearth sends a damaging wave that deals a small amount of Damage, but also raises dead Enemies as Bone Constructs for a limited amount of time. You can also Raise Zombies to temporarily increase your army, but Summoning them without a Corpse requires you to generate a Power Charge. The Skill you will use the most is the Bonestorm which fires several Projectiles that cause Hit Enemies to take additional Physical Damage from your Minion's Attacks. It is also worth it to sacrifice one of your Skeletons in the Pain Offering that massively boosts all your other Minions in exchange.
Thanks to the Blood Mage Ascendency you will be able to overload your maximum Life to double of its original value, which makes you extremely durable. It also grants you Life Leech, which greatly helps you to stay alive during Boss encounters without wasting too many Flask Charges.
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1. Gameplay
Your Minion army will automatically seek Enemies to defeat, but you can issue commands to target particularly dangerous Enemies or use their special abilities. You can gain momentum by summoning more temporary Minions with Unearth and Zombies. Use Vulnerability to lower the Armour of Bosses, and apply Bonestorm stacks so your Minions can deal additional Damage.
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2. Gems and Skills used
| Main Skills |
| Skeletal Reaver - summons aggressive, Reviving Skeletal Reavers that can enrage on command, causing them to lose life over time and gain Rage on hit. |
| Skeletal Brute - summons hard hitting, Reviving Skeletal Brutes that can Stun Primed Enemies. |
| Skeletal Cleric - summons Reviving Skeletal Clerics that heal other minions and Revive fallen Skeletons. |
| Skeletal Frost Mage - summons Reviving Skeletal Frost Mages that can Freeze themselves on command to slow nearby Enemies. |
| Unearth - raises spikes of bone from earth in front of you, damaging Enemies. The bones of Corpses in the area are ripped out and reassembled into short-lived Bone Construct Minions that fight for you. |
| Raise Zombie - Consumes a Corpse or Power Charge to create a Zombie. Zombies created from Power Charges are Empowered. |
| Utility Skills |
| Vulnerability - Curses all targets in an area after a short delay, reducing their Armour. |
| Pain Offering - Impales a Skeleton on a bone spike to empower nearby Minions into a frenzy as long as the spike remains, causing them to use skills more quickly. |
| Profane Ritual - Marks a Corpse with a profane rune, dealing Chaos damage over time to nearby enemies. When the ritual is complete the Corpse is consumed and you gain a Power Charge. |
3. Gear Setup
On your Gear look for bonuses for your Minions, bonuses for Allies in your presence, and Gem Levels. Defensively it would be best if you primarily focused on maximum Life to make the most out of your Leech. You will also need to cap your Resistance.
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